Group “Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter”
The activities of the “Statistical Physics and Complex Systems” team cover a wide spectrum. The first research direction concerns rigorous statistical mechanics, in particular the study of phase transitions in exactly solvable cases and/or from a geometric perspective. The second direction concerns the statistical physics of open quantum systems (out of equilibrium), and the development of models and analytical tools to study non-equilibrium steady states. The third direction focuses on the statistical physics of complex systems and complex networks, from the study of their structure to the study of dynamical processes on networks, and is pioneering in the study of temporal networks. Since the network paradigm can be used to describe many systems of different origins and natures, our research is interdisciplinary, including interactions with the social sciences, epidemiology, computer science, and neuroscience.
The team also participates in the Convergence Institute CENTURI. Since 2019 it has hosted three PIs partially funded by CENTURI, whose research topics concern collective effects and self-organization in living systems, cell mechanics, and neuroscience. They interact with experimental groups at IBDM and INMED.
The methods used by the team members range from rigorous mathematical tools to numerical simulations and the analysis of empirical data, covering the full range of standard approximation tools in statistical physics.
| AGOSTINELLI | Cosimo | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| ASCH | Joachim | Research teacher | +33.4.91.26.95.20 | Contact |
| ASCHBACHER | Walter | Research teacher | +33.4.91.26.95.16 | Contact |
| BARRAT | Alain | Researcher Director | +33.4.91.26.95.40 | Contact |
| BREIER | Patrick | Visitor | Contact | |
| ESTAVOYER | Maxime | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| GAMBAUDO | Juliette | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| GANDOLFO | Daniel | Research teacher | +33.4.91.26.95.10 | Contact |
| GENOIS | Mathieu | Research teacher Team leader « Statistical Physics and Complex Systems » | +33.4.91.26.95.42 | Contact |
| IANNELLO | Ludovico | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| MANCASTROPPA | Marco | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| MAURIAL | Gabriel | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| MERKEL | Matthias | Researcher | +33.4.91.26.95.12 | Contact |
| NATH | Sujit-Kumar | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| PEREZ | Pablo | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| PILLET | Claude-Alain | Research teacher | +33.4.91.26.95.32 | Contact |
| PLOTZE | Yan | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| QAZI | Saaheelur-Rahaman | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| ROUAULT | Herve | Researcher | +33.4.91.26.95.13 | Contact |
| ROULEUX | Michel | Research teacher | +33.4.91.26.97.97 | Contact |
| RUPPRECHT | Jean-Francois | Researcher | +33.4.91.26.95.14 | Contact |
| SABY | Florian | Ph.D. | Contact | |
| SHLOSMAN | Senya | Researcher emeritus | +33.4.91.26.95.31 | Contact |
| VIEIRA-MENDES | Toni | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| VINZE | Prathmesh | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| WANG | Michael | Post Ph.D. | Contact | |
| ZETT | Lukas | Ph.D. | Contact |
A minimal-length approach unifies rigidity in underconstrained materials
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019, 116 (14), pp.6560-6568. (10.1073/pnas.1815436116)
The structured backbone of temporal social ties
Nature Communications, 2019, 10 (1), pp.220. (10.1038/s41467-018-08160-3)
Building connections: How scientists meet each other during a conference
2019
Simplicial models of social contagion
Nature Communications, 2019, 10, pp.2485. (10.1038/s41467-019-10431-6)
Chirality induced interface currents in the Chalker–Coddington model
Journal of Spectral Theory, 2019, 9 (4), pp.1405-1429. (10.4171/JST/281)
Formation of Facets for an Effective Model of Crystal Growth
Sojourns in Probability Theory and Statistical Physics - I : Spin Glasses and Statistical Mechanics, A Festschrift for Charles M. Newman, 298, pp.199-245, 2019, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 978-9811502941. (10.1007/978-981-15-0294-1_9)
Anomalous one-dimensional fluctuations of a simple two-dimensional random walk in a large-deviation regime
Physical Review E , 2019, 99 (1), pp.012110. (10.1103/PhysRevE.99.012110)
Data Summaries and Representations: definitions and practical use
Multiplex and Multilevel Networks, Oxford University Press, 2018, 9780198809456. (10.1093/oso/9780198809456.003.0006)
Can co-location be used as a proxy for face-to-face contacts?
EPJ Data Science, 2018, 7 (1), pp.11. (10.1140/epjds/s13688-018-0140-1)
Are the different layers of a social network conveying the same information?
EPJ Data Science, 2018, 7 (1), pp.34. (10.1140/epjds/s13688-018-0161-9)
